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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 679 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Sanskrit
  3. True
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. 5
  7. The Jungle Book
  8. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. Tamil
  10. Gitanjali
  11. True
  12. Rama
  13. True
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. Awadhi
  16. Premchand
  17. Rabindranath Tagore
  18. Ramcharitmanas
  19. animal stories
  20. Krishna
  21. Sanskrit
  22. True
  23. 18
  24. Mowgli
  25. Kalidasa
  26. Hindi
  27. English
  28. Rudyard Kipling
  29. False
  30. Thiruvalluvar
  31. Tirukkural
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Meghaduta
  35. True
  36. the Panchatantra
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Bengali
  40. the Ramayana

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